Immuni was an
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
COVID-19 contact tracing app used for
digital contact tracing
Digital contact tracing is a method of contact tracing relying on tracking systems, most often based on mobile devices, to determine contact between an infected patient and a user. It came to public prominence in the form of COVID-19 apps during ...
in Italy, dismissed on 31 December, 2022, after a long and debated criticism for having been a failure due to the lack of trust placed by citizens. Immuni COVID-19 contact-tracing app had in fact been downloaded only by 12% of Italians between 14 and 75 years old (the government had previously stated that, in order for the app to work properly, it should have been downloaded by at least 60% of Italians). It makes use of the
Apple/Google Exposure Notification system.
It was developed by
Bending Spoons
Bending Spoons S.p.A. is an Italian mobile application developer, founded in 2013 and based in Milan. The company is known primarily for iOS mobile apps, including Splice, 30 Day Fitness, Live Quiz, and Remini. In November 2022, it agreed to ac ...
and released by the
on 1 June 2020. After a testing phase in 4 Italian regions (
Abruzzo
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,
Apulia
it, Pugliese
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Liguria,
Marche
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), the app started being active in the whole country on 15 June 2020. The app was initially released on
App Store and
Google Play, and since 1 February 2021 it is available on the
Huawei AppGallery
Huawei AppGallery (abbreviated AppGallery onscreen) is a package manager and application distribution platform, or marketplace 'app store', developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. for the Google-developed open-source Android operating syst ...
as well.
The source code was published on
GitHub on the 25 May. The app only works in
Italy, but compatibility with other European contact tracing apps was a goal. Since 19 October 2020 the app supports key-exchanges with the ''EU Interoperability Gateway'' and is therefore able to communicate with contact tracing apps of other
EU countries.
As of 16 December 2020, the app was downloaded more than 10 million times, a number which increased to 21.882.502 downloads the day before the app's shutdown.
On 27 December 2022 the
announced that the app and its infrastructures will be dismissed on the 31 December of the same year.
See also
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COVID-19 apps
COVID-19 apps include mobile-software applications for digital contact-tracing - i.e. the process of identifying persons ("contacts") who may have been in contact with an infected individual - deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Numerous ...
References
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Application software
COVID-19 contact tracing apps
COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
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